Washington Black: A Novel

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Washington Black: A Novelby
Esi Edugyan

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 | From
the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood
Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes
of slavery to become a free man of the world.

George Washington Black, or "Wash,"
an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is
terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his
surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist,
explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a
flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains
may embrace a life of dignity and meaning--and where two people, separated by
an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is
killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head,
Christopher and Wash
must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast
of America, and, finally, to
a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher
and Wash together will tear them apart,
propelling Wash
even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering
cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest
aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story
of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed
and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?